by Ullrich
Cooking may be fun most of the time – but when you really go for it, it turns into hard labour. That is certainly true for the classic French dish called tourte, a bourgeois marvel of culinary decadence which basically combines two elaborate dishes into one.
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, images, Lunch, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, French food, recipes
by Ullrich
A home-made terrine makes the pride of each amateur chef. A poor man’s feast in former times, it has turned into an almost ceremonial dish nowadays. Here are some basic rules for how to do it at home.
Categories: Apéro, Dinner, France, good food, hero butchers, Lunch, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, France, recipes
by Ullrich
Think Germany and sauerkraut, Korea and kimchi, Japan and sushi, America and hamburgers. Think Spain and paella, Italy and pasta, Russia and borschtsch. But what is THE French signature dish?
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, signature dish, World • Tags: Food, France, recipes, World Food
by Ullrich
Yes, this is a blog about French food but read the subtitle carefully – I leave the city every now and then and this time it is South Korea. Last week, I’ve spent a working week over there, and foodwise, the best experience was a restaurant in Suwon close to Seoul named “Yeon Po Galbi” which means, if my interpreter wasn’t wrong: “Next to the pond ribs”. I don’t know what that could possibly mean but the food was pond-rib-excellent. Prime meat […]
Categories: Dinner, good food, hero butchers, signature dish, World • Tags: Beef, Cooking, Food, South Korea, World Food
by Ullrich
The street markets in Paris will ruin me sooner or later, financially. But this morning, I couldn’t resist to a perfect daurade that I turned into a simple and noble French dish.
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, Lunch, nature, Paris, poetry, seafood, signature dish • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, recipes, Seafood
by Ullrich
I often think about how privileged France as a culinary country is. The two oceans alone – the Mediterranean to the South, the Atlantic to the West – are an endless source for excellent ingredients. I just prepared some excellent palourdes, hard clams.
Categories: Apéro, Dinner, France, seafood • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, French cuisine, recipes
by Ullrich
I confess that I’ve spent half of Holy Friday cooking. I actually don’t know whether that’s considered a sin by our Christian authorities (I guess so). To defend myself, I would argue that it was all about fish. I even created an original dish of my own!
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Skills, Food, France, recipes, Seafood
